At
Inner City
Press we are
rooting for
new media, new
approaches. So
when Circa
reported today
on George
Clooney spying
on Sudan and
its
International
Criminal Court
indicted
president Omar
al Bashir, we
chimed in with
the fact that
Bashir met
with the head
of UN
Peacekeeping,
Herve Ladsous,
only this
month.

The
mistake would
seem to
indicate a
dearth of
foreign policy
chops at
Circa; fine.
And they
replied that
they've now
updated their
story,
wherever it
is. But we
can't help
remembering:
when DeRosa
was at
Reuters,
ostensibly its
bridge to the
world of
social media,
he was
told of
problems.

But
DeRosa
never did
anything about
this either,
despite the
"social media"
in his title.
Then one
thought that
when he left
the hegemon,
and
went hipster
at Circa, he
might do
something. But
no, nothing,
at least not
so far. Some
things,
however,
require
action.

It's
fine for a
start up
social news
company to not
know, really,
who the
president of
Sudan is, or
where and when
he traveled,
or why. But
where is this
all going? How
can double
standards like
on Ladsous be
reported,
given this?
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